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Places in southern and eastern England dominated the top 10 list, with Dorset, East Sussex, Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk also identified as hotspots by Prudential.
Prudential looked at a range of data including disability-free life expectancy, access to he

When staff at CyberKeel investigated email activity at a medium-sized shipping firm, they made a shocking discovery.
"Someone had hacked into the systems of the company and planted a small virus," explains co-founder Lars Jensen. "They...

A quick tap of my card and I've given Macmillan Cancer £10. It beats trying to avoid eye contact every lunch hour with a "charity mugger" or chugger.
In today's fast-paced world, although we may hate to admit it, not many people have time to...

Sales of British salmon helped the UK export a record amount of food and drink in the first half of the year, according to industry figures.
Exports of the fish jumped more than 53% by value to £408m, the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) said.
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Its pleasures range from a visit to the stately Arundel Castle to flight delays at Gatwick airport.
Yet it seems West Sussex offers retirees the best possible lifestyle.
In a quality of retirement index, the county has overtaken Dorset as the top place f

President Trump is scrapping plans for a business panel on infrastructure, according to US media reports.
A White House official said the infrastructure panel, which was still being formed, would not go ahead.
The decision comes after two other White Hou

Mapping agency Ordnance Survey is reeling in record revenues with businesses and authorities turning to its pinpoint-accurate data.
The Government-owned firm reported revenue of £152.8million during the latest financial year, up 4 per cent on the previou

President Emmanuel Macron will be chuffed that France’s unemployment rate has fallen again, albeit by a fraction, to 9.5 per cent.
This leaves an astonishing 2.65m of the French population unemployed but at least the back has been broken.
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SPREE CONTINUES British shoppers continued to splash out last month – confounding fears of a sharp slowdown in spending as prices rise.
The Office for National Statistics said retail sales rose 0.3 per cent in July following a 1.5 per cent increase in th

Brussels bureaucrats triggered a run on a Spanish lender, investors have claimed.
Banco Popular collapsed in June and was sold to Santander for €1 after a loss of confidence which saw families rush to pull money out.
But hedge funds which owned bonds in

The owner and chairman of Saracens rugby club, Nigel Wray, saw his stake in investment firm YOLO Leaisure and Technology shoot up by £3.3million yesterday after the company soared in value.
YOLO – named after the phrase ‘you only live once’ – rose 65 per

A tremor shook Wall Street yesterday as investors panicked over a rumour that one of Donald Trump's top financial advisers was about to quit.
Former Goldman Sachs banker Gary Cohn has been a lynchpin of Trump's struggling administration and is spearheadi

Unemployment in France has fallen to a five-year low – but is still more than twice as high as in the UK where dole queues are the shortest for 42 years.
Official figures showed the jobless rate in France fell from 9.6 per cent to 9.5 per cent in the sec

British banks are facing fresh legal action after US authorities accused them of helping destroy American lenders once worth £340billion.
It’s claimed Lloyds, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and others helped ruin 39 firms across the Atlantic by rigging

An insider trading probe has hit the board of Germany’s stock exchange following a failed £21billion takeover of its British rival.
Deutsche Boerse sought to buy the London Stock Exchange last year, but competition authorities turned it down.
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